Building WSO2 Cloud

This year I changed my job and became in charge of the Cloud business at WSO2. This means that now on this blog you will have even more “cloud stuff”, so I thought I would start with a quick intro to why I joined WSO2 and our general cloud directions.

Sorry if the stuff below sounds a bit salesy.🙂

WSO2 started as a middleware company – with an enterprise service bus – WSO2 ESB – that is still one of the leading products in the industry.

For those who do not know, ESB is basically a system that helps connect all the discrepant IT systems that you might have – all talking different protocols, formats, etc. – so you can create your enterprise applications that use all the building blocks that you have in the company.

What made WSO2 cool (besides amazing performance and the fact that everything they produce is open source under Apache license and that all the core product discussions happen in the open, in public newsgroups) is that early on, the company designed the product to be a platform (called Carbon) which has many building blocks (for identity management, various protocols, event processing, transformations, analytics and so on) which the company then used to deliver a huge set of successful products:

ESB,

API Manager,

Identity Manager,

Business Analytics Monitor,

Complex Event Processing,

Private PaaS,

App Factory,

Enterprise Mobile Manager,

and many more.

All of these built from the same Carbon platform – which is very impressive.

This basically pushed the company from middleware provider to become a supplier of one of the most comprehensive platforms that the biggest enterprises are using to turn their IT platforms into Connected Business – unified system serving APIs, mobile apps, portals, applications and services connecting the company’s resources with employees, partners and customers.

Companies like Boeing, eBay, and StubHub are using this platform to run their systems – so inadvertently you have probably been a user of WSO2 technology one way or another.

Now my goal within WSO2 is to extend the reach of our technology to companies which would like to consume it as a service.

Coming from both enterprise and cloud background, I can attest that the collection of technology that WSO2 has is probably the most comprehensive cloud platform in the industry today.

At the moment, this technology gets used mostly in private cloud scenarios. My team is now actively building the public cloud side of the story. Stay tuned!

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